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was spraypainted on the wall of my junior school, above the ball hockey area. I thought that it was the name of a band for several years. Who spray paints the name of a record on a wall? maybe it was a grade seven marcel duchamp type who came up with graffiti-ing the word "graffiti", or maybe he was just really into "custard pie".

anyway, I can't stop listening to "House of The Holy" - the awesome sone, not the mediocre LP - over and over. it's not the most epic or even the wickedest led zep song, but it is I think my most beloved right now. I like how he's singing about going to the movies. It's nice to know he didn't actually think he lived in Mordor. Or if he did, it was a Mordor with movie theatres.

actually Plant must've hated going to the movies, with all the "Excuse me, ma'am, could you remove your hat?" cracks he must have got from the people in the row behind him.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Someone spray-painted "The Wall" above the dumpsters in the apartments I lived in when I was 9. Somehow, we all knew this referred to Pink Floyd, and not the actual wall it was on.

― dleone (dleone), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 21:14 (twenty-two years ago)

When I was a kid, a popular graffito was "Vambo Rools", which referred to a sensational alex harvey band song. Pretty obscure now, I suppose.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 21:14 (twenty-two years ago)

good point about "the wall" on the wall... it looked especially good on written on white-painted cinderblocks
(and what is up with "the rover"? that song creeps me out)

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 21:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I once saw 'John Foxx' sprayed under a bridge in the middle of nowhere.

― rw, Wednesday, 29 October 2003 21:46 (twenty-two years ago)

"houses of the holy" is not a mediocre lp. but the rest of your post was good.

― dan (dan), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 21:49 (twenty-two years ago)

(that was a joke, dan)

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 22:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I once saw "James Bond Was a Virgin" spray painted on the side of a van.

― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 22:01 (twenty-two years ago)

For a long time in the 80s, the nearest-to-the-house-I-live-in spray memo used to be -- on the fence surrounding a medical office across the street --
W.A.S.P.

In big fat black capitals, as was only natural. Made me smile, for some reason, every time I passed it. Which was virtually every day.
Then after a few years some different names appeared on a wall of our house -- Public Enemy, Old Dirty Bastard, Bruce Lee, Wu Tang, Ice-T, Metallica.
Which was all my son's and his friend's doing.
When they were enthusiastically spraying those same names, plus several others, also on the inside walls of the cellar, a coupla elderly neighbour grannies caught them and, with much hullaboloo, made the boys wash off what they has just accomplished. ...Oh well.

Physical Graffiti is anyway a great double. Totally.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 22:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't stop listening to "House of The Holy" - the awesome sone, not the mediocre LP

Bah! The album Houses of the Holy takes a great mammoth, runny dump all over the drivel that is the song "Houses of the Holy".

Of course, the best Zeppelin song then, now and forever is "In the Evening."

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought that it was the name of a band for several years

it is!

― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 29 October 2003 23:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I once bought a Baby Astronauts album because I had once seen their name spraypainted on a St. Augustine wall.

― Christine 'Green Leafy Dragon' Indigo (cindigo), Thursday, 30 October 2003 02:48 (twenty-two years ago)

The LP could have been one disc instead of two, alright, but the song 'Bron-yr-aur' is the best acoustic song ever. It's in an open C6 tuning, low to high: C A C G C E

― calstars (calstars), Thursday, 30 October 2003 02:52 (twenty-two years ago)

In the small Southern city from which I hail, someone had spray painted "Your libido is my trampoline" on a prominent surface visible from the local college bar strip. It was a Jason and the Scorchers lyric, I think, which tells you about how long ago this was. Still, I remember it to this day.

― Lee G (Lee G), Thursday, 30 October 2003 15:08 (twenty-two years ago)

There was this bridge near my house growing up where someone had painted every U2 album cover in an extremely detailed fashion. I mean, this was some shit. It must have taken them forever cause it was like The Joshua Tree and albums from those days. But why the fuck go to those lengths for U2?

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Thursday, 30 October 2003 15:54 (twenty-two years ago)

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